Felipe Fernández-Armesto
William P. Reynolds Professor of History
- ffernan2@nd.edu
- Office
- 449 Decio
- Education
- D.Phil., University of Oxford
- Time Period(s)
- Ancient, Early Modern, Medieval, Modern
- Theme(s)
- Empires & Colonialism, Environmental, Intellectual, Legal, Political, Race & Ethnicity, Religious, Science, Technology, and Medicine, Urban
- Geography(s)
- Africa, Asia, Atlantic, Britain, Europe, Global, Latin America, Mediterranean, Middle East, United States
Current research projects in the history of language and of cultural organisms; current or recent undergraduate classes on global environmental history, early colonial Native Mesoamerican source materials, and the history of wisdom; graduate supervision across a wide field, mainly in the early modern history of colonial societies.
Most recent awards: World History Association Book Prize and Tercentenary Medal of the Society of Antiquaries, 2007; major grant from the Fundación del Pino, Madrid, 2008-10; Reina Victoria Eugenia Distinguished Visiting Chair, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2010. Publications since 2010 include "Pillars and Post: Foundations and Future of Post-Modernism," in C. Jencks, ed., The Post-Modern Reader (Blackwell Wiley); "Las independencias de Colombia en la historia mundial" in J.C. Torres, ed., El gran libro del bicentenario (Planeta); (with Matthew Restall) Conquistadors: a Very Short Introduction (Oxford, Oxford U.P.); (with D.L. Smail) ‘Food,’ in D. Smail and A. Shryock, eds, Deep History (U. of California P.), and a new edition of The World: a History (Penguin). A Croatian translation of Pathfinders appeared, bringing to 27 the number of languages in which his work has appeared.